---
license: apache-2.0
language:
  - ar
pretty_name: Arabic Instruct Curated
tags:
  - instruction-tuning
---

# Arabic Instruct Curated

Curated Arabic instruction-following dataset for SFT of Qwen2.5 LoRAs
(`RASHID778/qwen2.5-3b-arabic-lora-v2` and `-7b-`).

Format: JSON Lines, one record per line:

```json
{"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "..."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "..."}], "source": "alpaca"}
```

## Composition (17,313 rows)

| source | kept | raw | notes |
|---|---:|---:|---|
| `Yasbok/Alpaca_arabic_instruct` | 6,000 | 52,002 | cap reached; filtered short/repetitive/parroting |
| `AhmedBou/Arabic_instruction_dataset_for_llm_ft` (train) | 3,966 | 10,000 | dropped ar->en translation tasks (Latin-dominated) |
| `yrrhall/Arabic_Aya14200` (`aya_collection-aya_dataset`) | 7,347 | 13,960 | dedup removed 3,135 near-duplicates |

Excluded entirely: `Mohamed-Sami/instruction-fine-tuning-arabic-dataset` (864K rows,
template noise + garbled OCR content).

## Filtering
- user >= 10 chars, assistant >= 15 chars
- no 8+ repeated-character runs
- no control characters
- Latin/letter ratio > 0.5 dropped (keeps Arabic-dominant samples)
- exact + normalized near-duplicate removal (Alef/Ya/Taa-Marbuta normalization, sha256)
- shuffled with seed 42